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ISBN 978-0-14-312339-2 $15.00 ($16.00 CAN)<br />
Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 256 pp. Rights: W00<br />
Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02349-3 (as Helen Keller<br />
in Love) On sale: 11/26/2013<br />
SuGGeSTeD ORDeR<br />
“ Captivating . . . a riveting<br />
story.” —Good Housekeeping<br />
“ Rosie Sultan is<br />
adventurous—and brave. . . .<br />
She has given the adult Helen Keller a new<br />
voice.” —The Washington Post<br />
ClassiC <strong>Penguin</strong><br />
106 DeCeMBeR<br />
The astonishing and imaginative<br />
debut novel about Helen Keller and<br />
the man she loved<br />
Helen in Love<br />
A Novel<br />
Rosie Sultan<br />
What comes to mind when you think of Helen Keller? Is it the<br />
deaf-mute wild child at the water pump outside her Tuscumbia,<br />
Alabama, home portrayed in The Miracle Worker or the adult<br />
activist for the rights of the disabled and women, the socialist who<br />
vehemently opposed war? Rosie Sultan’s debut novel imagines an<br />
intimate part of Keller’s life she rarely spoke or wrote about: her<br />
one and only love affair.<br />
Peter Fagan, a reporter from Boston, steps in as her secretary<br />
when her companion Annie Sullivan falls ill. The world this opens<br />
up for her is not the stuff of grade school biographies. Their affair<br />
meets with stern disapproval from Annie and from Helen’s mother,<br />
and when the lovers plot to elope, Helen is trapped between<br />
their expectations and her innermost desires. Sultan’s courageous<br />
novel insists on Helen’s right to desire, to human frailty—to be<br />
fully and completely alive.<br />
n A Denver Post bestseller<br />
n Perfect for bookclubs<br />
n Rosie Sultan won a PEN Discovery Award for fiction<br />
n Visit rosiesultan.com and facebook.com/rosiesultan, and follow<br />
@rosiesultan on Twitter<br />
Rosie sultan is a former fellow at the Virginia Center<br />
for the Arts and has taught writing at Boston University, the<br />
University of Massachusetts, and Suffolk University. She lives<br />
outside Boston.<br />
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